Honda recalls 143,000 cars in Japan with faulty airbags

Honda has recalled some 143,137 units of the Life kei car and Acty kei truck in Japan, following an incident where an airbag inflator failed to deploy in a crash, leaving a driver injured in the process.

Automotive News reports that the airbag systems involved were not provided by the infamous Takata, but by Daicel, a Japanese firm that specialises in producing airbag inflators. Misato Fukushima, a spokesperson for Honda, revealed that the airbag inflators were “not suitable and had inappropriate velocity”.

She added that the inflators are fitted to airbag systems produced by Nihon Plast Co, and were not equipped as replacements for vehicles with faulty Takata items. Daicel is said to have stopped all production of the inflator systems and is working together with Honda to rectify the situation.

With an equal passion for fast cars and everyday workhorses, Chris Aaron maintains a passion for European makes, Formula 1, playing the electric guitar and spending endless hours on the PlayStation - first-person shooters and the Gran Turismo franchise are his favourites. He also finds it strange to have written this in the third person.

P1 – only when become serious until customer complain kau-kau, but din kill pipu, then do recall

Jepunis- quietly hide it and send their worshipers to downplay any issues, even when alredi die pipu; still can say user problem and do half-hearted recall than is too late to role out which results in pipu still dying from killer airbags even thou they say going to recall since last year

In another words, jangan persoal jepunis quality. Its godlike combo in DOTA

SL have conned 300k pipu that the almighty T badge, and its cousin P n L, on its steering wheel can protect owners life better than 6 airbags, ESC, TC, HPF. He added, if they stick small objects on the passenger SRS panel, protection factor up by 10%.

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